Editing Red (section)

== On flags ==
{{see also|Red flag (politics)}}
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[[File:Countries with red on their flags.svg|thumb|Countries with red on their flags; the shades of red correspond to those on their respective flags.]]
Red is the most common color found in national flags, found on the flags of 77 percent of the 210 countries listed as independent in 2016;  far ahead of white (58 percent); green (40 percent) and blue (37 percent).<ref>Pastoureau, "Rouge - Histoire d'un couleur" (2019), p. 177</ref> The [[Union Flag|British flag]] bears the colors red, white and blue; it includes the [[cross (heraldry)|cross]] of [[Saint George]], patron saint of England, and the [[saltire]] of [[Saint Patrick's Flag|Saint Patrick]], patron saint of Ireland, both of which are red on white.<ref name=":8">{{Cite book|title=Tracking the jack|last=Brabazon|first=Tara|date=2000|publisher=UNSW Press|isbn=978-0868406992|location=Sydney|oclc=50382088}}</ref>{{Rp|10}} The [[flag of the United States]] bears the colors of Britain,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www1.va.gov/opa/feature/celebrate/Flag.asp|title=The United States Flag – Public and Intergovernmental Affairs|website=United States Department of Veterans Affairs|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061231081100/http://www1.va.gov/opa/feature/celebrate/Flag.asp|archive-date=December 31, 2006|url-status=dead|access-date=Dec 7, 2006}}</ref> the colors of the French {{lang|fr|[[Flag of France|tricolore]]}} include red as part of the old Paris coat of arms, and other countries' flags, such as those of [[Flag of Australia|Australia]], [[Flag of New Zealand|New Zealand]], and [[Flag of Fiji|Fiji]], carry a small inset of the British flag in memory of their ties to that country.<ref name=":8" />{{Rp|13–20}} Many former colonies of Spain, such as [[Mexico]], [[Colombia]], [[Costa Rica]], [[Cuba]], [[Ecuador]], [[Panama]], [[Peru]], [[Puerto Rico]] and [[Venezuela]], also feature red-one of the colors of the Spanish flag-on their own banners. Red flags are also used to symbolize storms, bad water conditions, and many other dangers.

The red on the [[flag of Nepal]] represents the [[floral emblem]] of the country, the [[rhododendron]].

Red, blue, and white are also the [[Pan-Slavic colors]] adopted by the Slavic solidarity movement of the late nineteenth century. Initially these were the colors of the Russian flag; as the Slavic movement grew, they were adopted by other Slavic peoples including [[Slovaks]], [[Slovenes]], and [[Serbs]]. The flags of the [[Flag of the Czech Republic|Czech Republic]] and [[Flag of Poland|Poland]] use red for historic heraldic reasons (see [[Coat of arms of Poland]] and [[Coat of arms of the Czech Republic]]) & not due to Pan-Slavic connotations. In 2004 [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] adopted a new white [[flag of Georgia (country)|flag]], which consists of four small and one big red cross in the middle touching all four sides.

Red, white, and black were the colors of the [[German Empire]] from 1870 to 1918, and as such they came to be associated with German nationalism. In the 1920s they were adopted as the colors of the [[Nazi Party|Nazi]] flag. In ''[[Mein Kampf]]'', Hitler explained that they were "revered colors expressive of our homage to the glorious past." The red part of the flag was also chosen to attract attention – Hitler wrote: "the new flag ... should prove effective as a large poster" because "in hundreds of thousands of cases a really striking emblem may be the first cause of awakening interest in a movement." The red also symbolized the social program of the Nazis, aimed at German workers.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Life of the Führer |date=1938|website=German Propaganda Archive |url=http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/pimpfhitler.htm |publisher=Calvin.edu|access-date=Sep 8, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007075549/http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/pimpfhitler.htm|archive-date=October 7, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> Several designs by a number of different authors were considered, but the one adopted in the end was Hitler's personal design.<ref>{{cite book|title=Mein Kampf|title-link=Mein Kampf |last=Hitler|first=Adolf|year=1926|volume=2 |chapter=Chapter VII|author-link=Adolf Hitler}}</ref>

Red, white, green and black are the colors of [[Pan-Arabism]] and are used by many Arab countries.<ref name="flags">{{cite web |title=Colors as Symbols in Flags |url=http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/flags/colors.shtml |publisher=EnchantedLearning.com |access-date=2011-12-17 |url-status=live |archive-date=2011-12-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111228174002/http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/flags/colors.shtml}}</ref>

Red, gold, green, and black are the colors of [[Pan-Africanism]]. Several African countries thus use the color on their flags, including South Africa, [[Ghana]], [[Senegal]], [[Mali]], [[Ethiopia]], [[Togo]], [[Guinea]], [[Benin]], and [[Zimbabwe]]. The [[Pan-African colours|Pan-African colors]] are borrowed from the [[flag of Ethiopia]], one of the oldest independent African countries.<ref name="flags"/><ref>{{Cite book |title=Chanting Down Babylon |last1=Murrell |first1=Nathaniel S. |last2=Spencer |first2=William D. |last3=McFarlane |first3=Adrian A. |date=1998 |publisher=Temple University Press |isbn=978-1566395830 |location=Philadelphia |pages=[https://archive.org/details/chantingdownbaby0000unse/page/135 135] |oclc=37115199 |display-authors=1 |url=https://archive.org/details/chantingdownbaby0000unse/page/135}}</ref> Rwanda, notably, removed red from [[Flag of Rwanda|its flag]] after the [[Rwandan genocide]] because of red's association with blood.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rwandan: Adoption of the new flag|date=Dec 31, 2005 |url=http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/rw-ad01.html#var |website=Crwflags.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913164945/http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/rw-ad01.html#var |archive-date=September 13, 2008 |access-date=Dec 17, 2011}}</ref>

The flags of Japan and [[Bangladesh]] both have a red circle in the middle of different colored backgrounds. The flag of the [[Philippines]] has a red trapezoid on the bottom signifying blood, courage, and valor (also, if the flag is inverted so that the red trapezoid is on top and the blue at the bottom, it indicates a state of war). The flag of [[Singapore]] has a red rectangle on the top. The field of the [[flag of Portugal]] is green and red. The Ottoman Empire adopted several different red flags during the six centuries of its rule, with the successor [[Turkey|Republic of Turkey]] continuing the 1844 Ottoman [[Flag of Turkey|flag]].
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Flag of Palaeologus Dynasty.svg|The flag of the [[Byzantine Empire]] from 1260 to its fall in 1453
Flag of England.svg|The [[St George's cross]] was the banner of the [[First Crusade]], then, beginning in the 13th century, the flag of England. It is the red color (along with that of the Cross of Saint Patrick) in the flag of the United Kingdom, and, by adoption, of the red in the flag of the United States.
Flag of the United States (1776–1777).svg|The red stripes in the [[flag of the United States]] were adapted from the [[Red Ensign|British Red Ensign]]. This is the [[Continental Union Flag]], the ''[[de facto]]'' flag of the United States until 1777.
Flag of Georgia.svg|The [[Flag of Georgia (country)|Flag of Georgia]] also features the [[Saint George's Cross]]. It dates back to the banner of Medieval Georgia in the 5th century.
Flag of Canada.svg|The maple leaf flag of Canada, adopted in 1965. The red color comes from the [[Saint George's Cross]] of England.
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